Download or read book Letters of the Franks Family 1733 1748 written by Abigail Franks and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Letters of the Franks Family written by Leo; Meyer Hershkowitz (Isidore S.) and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks 1733 1748 written by Abigail Franks and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house, wrote Henry David Thoreau in Walden. In creating this list, and many others that appear in his writings, Thoreau was working within a little-recognized yet ancient literary tradition: the practice of listing or cataloguing. This beautifully written book is the first to examine literary lists and the remarkably wide range of ways writers use them. Robert Belknap first examines lists through the centuries - from Sumerian account tablets and Homer's catalogue of ships to Tom Sawyer's earnings from his fence-painting scheme; then focuses on lists in the works of four American Renaissance authors: Emerson, Whitman, Melville, and Thoreau. Lists serve a variety of functions in Emerson's essays, Whitman's poems, Melville's novels, and Thoreau's memoirs, and Belknap discusses their surprising variety of pattern, intention, scope, art, and even philosophy. In addition to guiding the reader through the list's many uses, this book explores the pleasures that lists offer.

Download or read book The Letters of Abigaill Levy Franks 1733 1748 written by Abigail Franks and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abigaill Franks' letters are among the earliest extant by a woman in colonial New York City. They are also the earliest known letters by a Jewish woman in British America and probably the Western colonies. Thirty-five letters survive, all written to her son Naphtali between 1733 and 1748. These letters represent a rare resource for the study of family life during the colonial period as well as of the life of a lively and articulate woman. In this fascinating book, Edith B. Gelles carefully edits all of Abigaill Franks' letters to make them accessible to modern readers. Gelles' substantial introduction provides a portrait of New York City at the time, describes typical colonial family life, and discusses the Jewish immigrant experience in New York. Abigaill's spontaneously written letters tell of one Jewish family's assimilation in eighteenth-century America; it is a story that resonates with other stories of assimilation that permeate the pages of American history.

Download or read book Letters of the Franks Family 1733 1748 written by Leo Hershkowitz and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Franks Family Papers written by Frank family and published by . This book was released on 1711 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers of the Franks family of New York. Originally from England, the Franks were colonial merchants who settled in New York City during the 1700s. By the end of the century, they had mainly disappeared as Jews. This collection documents parts of their lives through correspondence, legal documents, and financial records. The correspondence is primarily written by Abigail Franks in New York to her son, Naphtali, in England. Also included in the papers are notes and correspondence of Dr. Leo Hershkowitz, who with Isidore S. Meyer co-edited the letters of the family: The Lee Max Friedman collection of American Jewish colonial correspondence : letters of the Franks family (1733-1748). Waltham, Mass. : American Jewish Historical Society, 1968.

Download or read book The Lee Max Friedman Collection of American Jewish Colonial Correspondence written by Abigail Franks and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lee Max Friedman collection of American Jewish colonial correspondence letters of the Franks family 1733 1748 written by Abigaill Franks and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lee Max Friedman Collection of American Jewish Colonial Correspondence written by Leo Hershkowitz and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Lee Max Friedman Collection of American Jewish Colonial Corespondence written by Isidore S. Meyer and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Review of The Lee Max Friedman Collection of American Jewish Colonial Correspondence written by Stanley F. Chyet and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book David Franks written by Mark Abbott Stern and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Franks, a colonial businessman in Philadelphia, was one of the most important figures in American Jewish history in the eighteenth century. This extensively researched biography illuminates not only Franks's personal dealings, but also his business life. Franks was involved with Indian trade, ship design and building, manufacturing, international trade, land speculation, westward exploration, and military provisioning. This volume follows Franks from his beginnings in a prominent Jewish family to his trials for treason and his exile in the postrevolutionary period, offering a unique portrait of a forgotten American.

Download or read book The Lee Max Friedman Collection of American Jewish Colonial Correspondence written by Leo Hershkowitz and published by . This book was released on 1968-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Abigaill Franks Letters written by Abigaill Franks and published by . This book was released on 1733 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes letters to her son, Naphtaly, of London, England, relating to family affairs (7 May 1733 to 30 Oct. 1748); and a letter from him to his father, Jacob Franks, regarding the same subject (22 Nov. 1743). Other persons represented include Philip Franks Delancey, David Gomez, Asser, Levy (died 1681), Simson Levy, and Naphtaly Myers.

Download or read book Women and American Judaism written by Pamela Susan Nadell and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New portrayals of the religious lives of American Jewish women from colonial times to the present.

Download or read book City of promises a history of the jews of New York written by Deborah Dash Moore and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Jews, so visible and integral to the culture, economy and politics of America's greatest city, has eluded the grasp of historians for decades. Surprisingly, no comprehensive history of New York Jews has ever been written. City of Promises: The History of the Jews in New York, a three volume set of original research, pioneers a path-breaking interpretation of a Jewish urban community at once the largest in Jewish history and most important in the modern world.

Download or read book American Jewish Women s History written by Pamela S. Nadell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2003-04-05 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It gives me a secret pleasure to observe the fair character our family has in the place by Jews & Christians,“Abigail Levy Franks wrote to her son from New York City in 1733. Abigail was part of a tiny community of Jews living in the new world. In the centuries that followed, as that community swelled to several millions, women came to occupy diverse and changing roles. American Jewish Women’s History, an anthology covering colonial times to the present, illuminates that historical diversity. It shows women shaping Judaism and their American Jewish communities as they engaged in volunteer activities and political crusades, battled stereotypes, and constructed relationships with their Christian neighbors. It ranges from Rebecca Gratz’s development of the Jewish Sunday School in Philadelphia in 1838 to protest the rising prices of kosher meat at the turn of the century, to the shaping of southern Jewish women's cultural identity through food. There is currently no other reader conveying the breadth of the historical experiences of American Jewish women available. The reader is divided into four sections complete with detailed introductions. The contributors include: Joyce Antler, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Alice Kessler-Harris, Paula E. Hyman, Riv-Ellen Prell, and Jonathan D. Sarna.